Personalized account migration system and method

• US 20060112172A1
• Filed: 09/07/2005
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Kasiraja, Mark, Isaac, Tomy K.
• Application Number:
  US11/220,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20060112172A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A method for migrating information, and a migrator for migrating information, are disclosed. The method may include extracting organizational information from at least two service providers, accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of a migration selection interface by the user, receiving of a first plurality of information related to the user from one of the service providers, accessing a second at least one of the at least two service providers, and writing the first plurality of information to the second at least one of the at least two service providers. The migrator includes an importer in communicative connection with at least one migrate-from service provider, a normalizer that receives a first plurality of information from the importer and converts the first plurality to a standard format, a denormalizer that receives the standard format from the normalizer and converts the standard format to a second plurality of information, and an exporter communicatively connected to a migrate to service provider, which exporter receives the second plurality of information from the denormalizer and sends the second plurality to the migrate-to service provider.

Claims

1. A method for migrating information, comprising:

extracting organizational information from at least two service providers to form at least two organizational information protocols, wherein one organizational information protocol corresponds to each of the at least two service providers;

providing a migration selection interface to a user;

accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

receiving, according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the first at least one of the at least two service providers, of a first plurality of information related to the user, upon said accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers;

accessing a second at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

writing the first plurality of information to the second at least one of the at least two service providers according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the second at least one of the at least two service providers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two service providers provide services in a service provision area.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the service provision area is at least one selected from banking and financial services, email services, on line calendar and address book services, mysite.com pages, bill payment services, and application service providers.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the banking and financial services are at least one selected from the group consisting of payment of a mortgage, a loan, a balance transfer, account balances, filling out of forms, credit checks, digital signal encryption, and login and password information.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the mysite.com site is at least one selected from the group consisting of an ISP site, a wireless customization site, a shopping site, and an online trading site.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the organizational information protocol includes a format and a location for the first plurality of information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, upon said extracting, formatting the organizational information protocol for each service provider into an organizational information database organized by service provider.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the organizational information protocol represents a manner of organization of the at least one service provider, information entry methods for the at least one service provider, and information extraction methods for the at least one service provider.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the organizational information protocol includes keys that precede the first plurality of information on the at least one service provider.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises creating an account with the at least one service provider, and tracking of the account created.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises scraping the at least one service provider.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises spidering the at least one service provider.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting comprises:

entering the at least one service provider as a browser;

parsing the at least one service provider;

mapping the organizational information protocol to a standard format.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the migration selection interface comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a clickable icon, a button, a tile, an authorization box, an entry of a name, an entry of a password, an entry of personal information, and an entry of credit card information.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein said accessing a first at least one service provider comprises entering a user name and password.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving the first plurality of information further comprises normalizing of the first plurality of information into a same format as the organizational information protocol database.

17-28. -28. (canceled)

29. A method for migrating information, comprising:

extracting organizational information from at least two service providers to form at least two organizational information protocols, wherein one organizational information protocol corresponds to each of the at least two service providers;

providing a migration selection interface to a user;

accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

receiving, according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the first at least one of the at least two service providers, of a first plurality of information related to the user, upon said accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers;

normalizing the first plurality of information into a standard format;

accessing a second at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

denormalizing the normalized first plurality of information into a second plurality of information;

writing the second plurality of information to the second at least one of the at least two service providers according to the organizational information protocol correspondent to the second at least one of the at least two service providers.

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53. A method for migrating information, comprising:

providing a migration selection interface to a user;

accessing a first at least one of at least two service providers upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

receiving of a first plurality of information related to the user, upon said accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers;

normalizing the first plurality of information into a standard format;

accessing a second at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of the migration selection interface by the user;

denormalizing the normalized first plurality of information into a second plurality of information;

writing the second plurality of information to the second at least one of the at least two service providers.

54-81. -81. (canceled)